Karthigai Deepam @ Thiruvannamalai…. Today 5 Dec 2014…

 

The first day (26.11.2014)Karthika Deepam festival begins with the hosting of the flag signifying the commencement of the festival also known as Dwajaroghanam. In the morning and night Lord Arunachaleswarar will be taken out on the silver vahana for procession. The Panchamurthis(Panchamurthigal) are also taken out in the procession. The Panchamurthigal are Lord Ganapathi, Lord Murugan, Lord Sandeswarar, Lord Arunachaleswarar and Goddess Parvathi.These processions are carried out on different vahanas after the Deeparadhana is done at the kalyana mandapam.Many festivals are celebrated at Arunachaleswarar temple in Tiruvannamalai throughout the year. Among themKarthigai Deepam is the most significant festival that is celebrated with pomp and gaiety atArunachaleswarar temple.In this year Karthikai Deepam falls on 5th December,2014 .This Karthigai Deepam is celebrated as a ten day festival and it widely known as Karthigai Brahmotsavam.

The second day (27.11.2014) – Karthigai Deepam festival commences with the Lord Panchamurthigal coming on Indira Vimanam the chariot of Lord Indira.

The third day (28.11.2014) – Karthigai Deepam festival the ceremony begins at night with the Lord Panchamurthigal coming in procession majestically on the Simha vahana, the chariot of lion.

On the fourth day (29.11.2014) of Karthikai Deepam the Lord Panchamurthigal comes in the procession that starts at night on the kamadhenu vahanam. The auspicious tree Karpaviruksha is also on the side of the lord. This tree is believed to grant all the wishes that the devotees seek without fail.

The fifth day (30.11.2014) – Karthikai Deepam festival begins at night. This procession on the silver rishaba vahanam is very appealing and splendid to witness. Lord Panchamurthigal goes on this vahana that is about 25 feet tall. A big umbrella with about 17 feet in diameter is carried along in the procession.

The sixth day (1.12.2014) – Karthigai Deepam festival commences with a night procession of Lord Panchamurthigal on the silver chariot that is beautifully crafted and simply imposing when it comes around the temple.

The seventh day (2.12.2014) of Karthikai Deepam festival Lord Panchamurthigal starts with the procession on the Maha ratham that is very huge and it almost occupies the full width of the road. This ratham is made of pure wood that is strong and rugged.

The eight day (3.12.2014) – Karthigai Deepam festival begins at night with the Lord Panchamurthigal going out on procession on the huge horse vahana. The speciality of this horse is that all the four legs of this horse are in the air and they do not touch the ground.

On the ninth day (4.12.2014) of Karthigai Deepam festival the devotees can witness Lord Panchamurthigal going out procession on the Kailasa Vahanam. This ceremony is mostly conducted on the ninth night.

The tenth day (5.12.2014) – Karthigai Deepam festival starts at around four o clock in the early hours and the Bharani Deepam is lit at the temple. In the evening the Mahadeepam is lit on the top of the hill at around six o clock. This is a very important ceremony during the Karthigai Deepam festival at Tiruvannamalai. Arunachaleswarar is said to be visually represented in the form of agni on the hill top. There is a very mammoth gathering on this day at the Arunachaleswarar temple to witness this glorious and sacred event. The night ceremony starts with Lord Periya nayagar going out procession on the Rishaba vahanam that is made of gold. This is another spectacular event at Arunachaleswar temple at Tiruvannamalai.

Theppal – Lord Chandrasekarar, Lord Parasakthi,Lord Subramaniar goes in the boat and this is called Theppam, since it carried out in the tank. Lord Arunachaleswarar goes procession round the hill, known as Girivalam or pradhiksahana. With this ceremony the Karthigai Deepam festival at Arunachaleswarar temple comes to a grand conclusion with the devotees taking back home some divine blessings and memories from this ancient holy city Tiruvannamalai.

SOURCE::::www.thiruvannamalai.in

Natarajan

Joke of the Day… ” Are You Depressed…” ?

If you ever feel depressed in your life… open your mailbox… When I open my mailbox, I find: 10 banks are giving me easy loans.

I have won GBP 10000000 and USD 500000 for unknown reasons.
10 Job companies have best jobs for me.
5 matrimonial sites have most suited matches for me.
Dr. Batra has claimed that he will cure my hair fall & greying.
3 universities are giving me degrees in random subjects.

And to top it all …
Approx 70-80 mails from Priya, Payal, & Neha who are feeling lonely and want to meet me.

What else you need from life ???

SOURCE:::: http://www.siliconindia.com

Natarajan

 

Most Visited Websites in the World … 2014…

With the advent of the Smartphones,  the usage of internet on   desktops or laptops has massively reduced.  Most of the users these days learn to use the internet to help them out with all  queries they have without having to ask anyone. So, here are some of the best and biggest websites in the world as compiled by the Online News Point.

 
# Facebook

 
Facebook is hard to miss for a person who is new on the internet and needs no introduction because of the hype and recognition.  Founded by Mark Facebook Zuckerberg in 2004, Facebook was the first website that was into online social networking. The site is most popular among people of all age groups but  is widely famous among the teens. According to the Wikipedia, it had close to 1.3 billion active users as of June 2014.
# Wikipedia

 
The next big website which answers most of the queries is the Wikipedia. It allows anyone to access the site and edit the articles on the site. As of February 2014, it had 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors every month.

 
WikipediaThe site has over 22 million accounts out of which there were over 73,000 active editors globally as of May 2014. Wikipedia.org is simply the easy and best source of knowledge. It is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

 
# Amazon

 
With the headquarters in Seattle, Washington, the Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world. Started as an online bookstore, it soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry.

 
The company was founded in 1994, spurred by what Bezos called his “regret minimization framework”, which described his efforts to fend off any regrets for not participating sooner in the internet business boom during that time. Amazon was originally founded in Bezos’ garage in Bellevue, Washington. Amazon is also into the manufacture of the consumer electronics like the Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone.

# Twitter

 
Twitter is an online social networking service that allows users to send and read 140-character messages called “Tweets”. The site allows the registered users to read and post tweets and lets them access it through the desktop computers or the mobile apps.

 
Twitter was introduced in 2006 and the service rapidly grew worldwide with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. The site was one of the ten most visited websites and has been described as “the SMS of the internet” in 2013.

 
Twitter gains immense popularity over the web and has turned into ultimate piece of information because of the presence of the news organizations, politicians, and other industry-specific experts on the site.

 
# Taobao.com

 
Taobao.com is a Chinese website for clothing, accessories, jewelry, food, electronics, and more which is similar to eBay and Amazon operated by Taobao.comAlibaba Group. Founded by Alibaba Group in 2003, it facilitates consumer-to-consumer retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online retail stores that mainly cater to consumers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

 
# Baidu

 
Baidu is a Chinese web Services Company headquartered in the Baidu Campus in Haidian District, Beijing. It offers many services, including a Chinese language search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu also offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online collaboratively built encyclopedia, and a searchable keyword-based discussion forum. Baidu was established in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu.

 
Baidu is one of China’s most popular search engines. It employs thousands of China’s best engineers to continually update the quality and speed of its search engine.
# Yahoo

 
Yahoo.com is a search engine and platform that connects to users to other Yahoo properties, such as Yahoo Finance and Flickr. Yahoo is one of the original Web portals from the 1990s; it offers news, sports, finance, and email. It was the third largest search engine in 2013 and it is one of the world’s largest email service providers. According to the Alexa web rankings, Yahoo is the 4th most visited website.

 
# Google

 
Known as the search engine giant, Google.com is the most preferred search engine by most of the internet users. Google entered a crowded search Googleengine market in the late 1990s, but won because it was the fastest and had a clean design. It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they attended Stanford University.

 
# YouTube

 
YouTube.com is the platform for uploading, sharing, and watching user-created videos. It was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google, and the site got more popular.

SOURCE:::: http://www.siliconindia.com

Natarajan

 

Message For the Day…” Self Confidence and Divine Grace are the Two Mirrors You Need…”

The conflict between persons who accept God and deny Him, those who declare that God is to be found in this or that place and those who affirm that He can be found nowhere, is never ending; it has been continuing throughout the ages. Remember that it is unnecessary to awaken a person already awake and it is easy to awaken a person who is asleep. You cannot awaken, however much you try, a person not wanting to awaken! Those who do not know, can be taught by means of simple illustrations what they do not know. But those afflicted with half-knowledge and proud of that acquisition are beyond any further education. Your two eyes give a picture of a vast expanse of space, but they cannot see your whole body! For that, you need two mirrors – one in front of you and one behind. So too, to know your reality, you need the mirrors of Self-confidence (Atma-vishwas) and Divine Grace.

Sathya Sai Baba

Image of the Day…Full Circle Rainbow !!!

Rare and wonderful full-circle rainbow

In theory, any rainbow can be a full circle, but – from Earth’s surface – we typically see only the top part of a rainbow.

View larger. | Full circle rainbow was captured over Cottesloe Beach near Perth, Australia in 2013 by Colin Leonhardt of Birdseye View Photography.  He was in a helicopter flying between a setting sun and a downpour.   Used with permission.  Order prints of this photo.

Colin Leonhardt kindly gave us permission to publish this awesome full-circle rainbow photo, which was the Astronomy Picture of the Day on September 30, 2014. People often think they have seen full-circle rainbows, but what they are most commonly seeing are airplane gloriesor halos around the sun. It’s very rare to see a full-circle rainbow. You have to be up high to see one, and sky conditions have to be perfect. Remember … a true rainbow is seen when you’re looking opposite the sun, through a shower of rain.

Colin Leonhardt captured this full-circle rainbow over Cottesloe Beach near Perth, Australia in 2013. He was in a helicopter, flying between sunset and a shower of rain.

Notice the second rainbow – fainter and color-reversed – outside the first.

Order prints of this photo.

Bottom line: Beautiful photo of rare full-circle rainbow, captured from the air by Colin Leonhardt in Perth, Australia.

SOURCE::::www.earthsky.org

Natarajan

A Grandfather’s Letter to His Grandchild …

 

A Grandfather Writes The Most Beautiful Letter To His Grandson In This Amazing Video..

The subtleties of experiences are beautiful and liberating. This amazing video illuminates the beauty of life, the purpose of life. It is endearing to the point of excellence and it is going to fill your heart with innumerable emotions of life.

SOURCE:::: http://www.stotypick.com and You Tube

Natarajan

” Pencil Sketch of Maha Periavaa… “

Today is Guruvara Pradhosham. On this auspicious occasion, we are pleased to share a beautiful pencil sketch on Sri Maha Periva, by our respected moderator and artist Sri Narayanan Bala (anusham163)

Jaya Jaya Shankara, Hara Hara Shankara !

SOURCE:::: http://www.periva.proboards.com

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Message For the Day…” Practice What You Learn From Spiritual Teachings…”

Mere reading of spiritual texts is not enough. You may master all the commentaries and you may be able to argue and discuss with great scholars about these texts; but without attempting to practise what they teach, it is a waste of time. I never approve of book-learning; practice is what I evaluate. When you come out of the examination hall you know whether you will pass or not, is it not? For you can yourself judge whether you have answered well or not. So too in sadhana (spiritual effort) or in conduct or in practice, each of you can judge and ascertain the success or failure that is in store. The moon is reflected in a pot, provided it has water; so too the Lord can be clearly seen in your heart, provided you have the water of Love (Prema). When you don’t see the Lord reflected in your heart, do not say that there is no Lord; it only means that there is no Love within you.

Sathya Sai Baba

” நம் உடல் நலத்துக்கு முத்திரை பத்து…” !!!

 

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A Millionaire With a Different Mindset !!!

The Millionaire Who Rebuilt a Village

Have you ever fantasized about becoming a millionaire and surprising all the people that were there for you along the way? Well this is the recent story of a man who did just that, and in a splendid way.
54-year-old Xiong Shuihua was born in a little village called Xiongkeng, in Southern China. Many times during his childhood, he recalls, the kind villagers helped him and his family, when they were going through hard times. In time, he grew to become a successful businessman who made millions in the steel industry.
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The business tycoon recently headed back to his home village. These were the huts and dirty houses the poor villagers had to live in.
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They only had dirt, muddy roads and old detritus was everywhere.
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Xiong saw this and decided to change the lives of these kind villagers forever.
I earned more money than I knew what to do with, and I didn’t want to forget my roots. I always pay my debts, and wanted to make sure the people who helped me when I was younger and my family were paid back.” He said.
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He had all the huts torn down and instead built luxury apartments and villas for all the villagers.
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He then replaced the muddy dirt roads with nicely paved streets.
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And just like that, this poor village became a completely different place
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The kind millionaire even promised that any elderly or low income families who need it will get 3 meals a day free of charge.
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Thanks to him, 72 families are living in luxury apartments and another 18, who have been especially kind to his family, got their own villas. This is after living in wooden huts for decades.
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A local man by the name of Qiong Chu, age 75, said:
I remember his parents. They were kind-hearted people who cared very much for others, and it’s great that their son has inherited that kindness.
I can’t think of a better use of a fortune that this, can you? 

Photos credit: Dailymail

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Natarajan